Anthony Beesley Poet Blank verse

Strike the Serpent

Desperate ones seek that so called success
Lost are those liars so savage and so stressed
Endlessly climbing those crookedness ladders
Misguided like missiles...snatching the silver and grabbing the gold
Warm hearts turn to stone
Goodness to greed
Driven mad by their desires
Driven mindless by their nightmarish needs
The serpent he slithers and he seethes
To him dead ends and devastation is all that really matters
So strike the serpent and watch his slaves all scatter

Waging wars against the weak...without a rhyme without a reason
True ones turn to treason
Silence fills the scene
Solve the problem at the source
Fury turns into fire
Faith turns into force
Hell rides in on a hate filled horse
Icy fangs sink into iron fists
Venom flows volcanic while treachery it twists
Fools and fiends get bullied and beaten...bashed and battered
Mind over money and money over matter
So strike the serpent and watch his slaves all scatter

That serpent of old is clever and cold
Victims still drown in his venom
Never reading the signs and signals from high
Eternity waits now to eat him
Still many are the stars he meets when the sun goes down
Smiles soon turn to frowns
Cursed are those clowns
Stuck like magnets on metal merry go rounds
Sliding into sin and into the smoke the scared ones scatter
So strike the serpent and watch his slaves all scatter

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Poesy Relish May 12, 2015 at 3:27 PM Dark and deep, I like this poem of your... I loved the way you used the image of slithery and vicious serpent, to represent the human nature as well... there have been people like this serpent throughout history (though I hate and is scared of snakes more than anything in this world.. eww) ... #7... nadiya

Skat A May 12, 2015 at 1:21 PM i hate snakes (very much)

John Lawless May 12, 2015 at 6:33 AM I found a snake skin hanging in a shrub outside the house....does that mean the serpent is growing?? This was an interesting walk down a very dark and foggy street. Anthony Beesley May 12, 2015 at 11:28 AM Thank you for reading and responding...listening to Pink floyds "Animals" as I write this